There's hustle and
bustle at Istanbul's grand bazaar as merchants and their assistants rush
through the narrow alleys in their attempt to be more successful than their
competitors. Everything must be well organized: wheelbarrows must be filled with
goods at the warehouses, then swiftly transported by the assistants to various
destinations. Your goal? Be the first merchant to collect a certain number of
rubies.

In Istanbul, you lead a group of one merchant and four assistants through
16 locations in the bazaar. At each such location, you can carry out a specific
action. The challenge, though, is that to take an action, you must move your
merchant and an assistant there, then leave the assistant behind (to handle all
the details while you focus on larger matters). If you want to use that
assistant again later, your merchant must return to that location to pick him
up. Thus, you must plan ahead carefully to avoid being left with no assistants
and thus unable to do anything!